Look at my wrist, boy, look at the veins beneath the skin. I tell you they've never been pierced before. So be careful, yeah?, go easy on me now.

there's a kid who had a big hallucination
making love to girls in the magazines
he wonders if you're sleeping with your new-found faith
could anybody love him- or was it just a crazy dream?

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Oké, oké, I feel like a bloody n00b (ooh! Netspeak!), but I honestly never even expected finding someone else like me. I mean, of course, I didn't think I was the only one in the whole wide world, but I met specialists who had never heard of my condition before, so I didn't expect finding anyone else... let alone did I expect that LiveJournal has a ( Read more... )

This is like reading Deathly Hallows all over again, that wonder, that getting quiet and despairing and loving and having each word and turn of phrase settle in some deep part of your mind where stories and beauty and happiness and thoughts grow. It’s called How We Shine and if I read this again, it should be easy to guess whom it was written by.

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He said he left it at his home today because "he didn't trust me not to steal it out of his bag". Those were his exact words, translated. He didn't say he expected me to, he said at that moment he didn't trust me not to. Which, what the fuck, seriously - it is mine. He had no fucking right to take it.

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We just finished Alexander, at last, after so many weeks. We all, of course, knew the story but it was an experience to watch it together, all twenty-one of us.

I'm not nearly as melancholic as I would've been if not for one of the last lines of the movie ("the one we now call Macros Alexandros, [makros alecandros] 'the greatest of all Alexanders ( Read more... )

It's not that I don't want to - my fascination for the flyers that are being handed around showed me that once again - but I'm saying that I don't have the talent.  Going to ArtEZ or any other art academy/university is all good and well and a lovely idea to boot, but I can't work with my hands and no amount of desperate teachers can change that.   ( Read more... )